Month: March 2025

Illocutionary Act – The intended meaning or function of a speech act (e.g., a promise, threat, or request).

Locutionary Act – The literal act of saying something (utterance meaning).

Speech Act – A communicative action performed through speech, such as making a request or giving a command.

Indigenous Language Rights – Legal and social efforts to protect and promote minority and indigenous languages.

Neologism in Revitalization – The creation of new words to adapt an endangered language for modern contexts.

Code-Switching as a Survival Strategy – How speakers of endangered languages mix languages to navigate sociolinguistic pressures.

UNESCO Language Endangerment Scale – A system for classifying the risk level of a language, from safe to extinct.

Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Approaches – Prescriptive rules dictate how language “should” be used, while descriptive linguistics records actual usage.

Descriptive Linguistics – The study of a language’s structure as it exists at a given time, often used in language documentation.